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My intrepid sister is currently working on board a fishing trawler off S Island New Zealand. She went to NZ on a pig farming ticket to start with, and never came back, except on visits.
 
Marc Joan said:
I've always wanted to go to NZ. One day.
Maryland sounds nice too, but my kids want to see kakapos and tuataras. Got those in Maryland?
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Alas, fondness for tuataras notwithstanding, I'm afraid not — we only have the odd hyena, and manbearpig.
 
Ohhhhhhh. One of those.


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Yeah, lots of us who arrive in NZ never manage to leave. Beats Maryland, Jason...by a long shot! Not that there aren't beautiful places in Maryland (I grew up next door in PA). I make sure I go back to the US every couple of years, just to remind myself of how good I have it here, in spite of my abysmal job prospects and over 15,000 earthquakes in the past 4 years. I do miss megafauna, though--too bad the moa and Haast eagle are gone.
 
As much a shame as the loss of the short-faced bear and American lion and smilodon.

Wait. Is that a shame?
 
I'm okay with fauna being small enough now to fight with your bare hands, like the mountain lion or the Ewok.
 
Don't come to Scotland then or the Each Uisage might get you ;)
 
Karen Gray said:
Don't come to Scotland then or the Each Uisage might get you ;)
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Pshaw. I fought the Pooka of Greyrock; he looks pretty similar. Wait here.

Sorry. I had to take the opportunity to be Sir Alyn, just for a second. Spent long enough writing about him.
 
Wait, wait. Where were we? I kinda wandered off there. Writing Saint was back from New Zealand, and Robin loves mealworms.
 
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